Winter Roses • 2004
Poetry by Charlene Baldridge, Emily Dickinson, Frederica von Stade, and Raymond Carver
Song & Chamber
For Mezzo, Piano, and String & Wind Quintets
World Premiere: October 9, 2004
Commissioned by Richard & Luci Janssen for Camerata Pacifica
First Performance: mezzo Frederica von Stade, pianist Vicky Ray, and instrumentalists
Marjorie Luke Theatre in Santa Barbara, CA
Duration: 23’
Resources
Prologue: Winter Roses
I. Two Birds
1. The Wren
2. The Robin
II. Three Shades
3. A Hero
4. Sleeping
5. To My Dad
III. Looking West
6. Sweet Light
Epilogue: Late Fragment